Susan Baumann

@Jon88keys Very enjoyable!

The piano is out of tune, and my playing is meh, but I am very bad about recording, well anything, so what the heck. This was yesterday at Jasna Polana...

@LqLana And I thought Dark Brandon with his marines in the background was bad... Our military and our monuments are not props and backdrops for your circuses, whichever administration you are

Hold the fuck up. Hold up. Those are Honor Guards? I'm literally flabbergasted. The disrespect is off the charts. Just fucking wow. #DemsUnited

@Polymarket Cut service to uk devices until the politicians get their minds right.

NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.

Attention is a tiny altar. Only one thing can be placed on it at a time. The trick is not “how do I focus harder”the trick is asking, again and again: • What am I currently worshipping? • Did I choose it? • Is it worthy of the hour I’m giving it? The window of attention is never empty. If you don’t put something precious inside it, something loud will climb in and sit there wearing a crown.

“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.” - Federico García Lorca, (1934)

Somewhere between awe-inspiring and slightly intimidating. ⛈️✈️

@charise_lee The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine...

UFC press conference postponed due to the rain. I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. May this be the wettest weekend on record for DC!

Douglas Adams, prescient as always

@HQNewsNow You're pronouncing grift wrong.

Rubio on Trump's White House UFC fight on his birthday: "It's a gift to the American people."

"Sun Burst" , 2016 Oil on Canvas, Roland Ruocc

Welcome back, #KennedyCenter!

Good Morning ☀️ ~ "I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again".......... Virginia Woolf ~ Art bi William Strang (1859-1921)

@scarylawyerguy I'm perfectly content to let him save face if it saves the lives of our military who've been put in an impossible situation.

Trump is basically using the UAE as a cut out to get Iranians billions of dollars so it can't be said *the U.S.* gave the Iranians this money. Again, all of this is done so Dear Leader isn't called weak or a loser.

'I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.' David Hockney

@tufpraise "I love the poorly educated." ~ Donald Trump

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics. this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

@CREWcrew Too much winning! Oh wait, no it's not, no it's not.

The Trump administration tried to say the Presidential Records Act was unconstitutional, so we sued, and a federal judge ordered them to follow the law. That's a huge win! We’ll keep fighting to ensure this admin can’t operate in secrecy. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…

@the_book_land "Art is elitist by nature?" I find this to be a profoundly false and offensive statement. Every child born is a natural artist and might remain so if not discouraged by their "education" and society's whims. Such attitudes belong in the past with the dead poets who espoused them.

People from lower classes can nonetheless access the great classics. That is no excuse at all. But great art is not for everybody - art is elitist by nature, and each person should fill the role in society that they can fill better. What there should be, however, is, as Eliot says, more respect for education. 'A high average of general education is perhaps less necessary for a civil society than is a respect for learning.' '[T]he ideal of a uniform system such that no one capable of receiving higher education could fail to get it, leads imperceptibly to the education of too many people, and consequently to the lowering of standards to whatever the swollen number of candidates is able to reach.' (Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture)

I believe that the threshold of how much embarrassment a person can tolerate determines the size of the life they can live. every meaningful act requires the risk of looking foolish: beginning anything, speaking your truth, wanting visibly, attempting what you might fail at publicly. the people who cannot tolerate embarrassment do not get to do these things, or they do them only in secret, where the embarrassment is contained. the people who have made their peace with embarrassment, who have decided it isn’t a verdict but a sensation, get access to a larger version of being alive. the difference between the two lives is enormous and it is almost entirely about embarrassment.

Le carnet de croquis de Turner